Category: CARRIERS

Sprint has added a cell site which improves coverage between the Floriston and Hirschdale exits. They have co-located antennas at an existing cell site occuppied by Nextel and AT&T. See our maps to view up-to-date cell site locations for all carriers.

T-mobile has placed their antennas atop a newly-heightened monopole behind Wal-Mart on Damonte Ranch Parkway and South Virginia Street. Their antennas are over 100-feet high, providing improved coverage in the south Reno area. CID 1326x. See our maps to compare cell site locations for all carriers.

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Construction is in-progress on a 24-foot extention of the monopole located behind Wal-Mart at Damonte Ranch Parkway and South Virginia Street. Permits show that T-Mobile will be co-locating antennas on the newly hightened structure. Cricket, Clearwire, AT&T and Sprint which are currently located at the site may move to higher positions on the pole.

Verizon Wireless has announced plans to acquire Alltel, which will result in Verizon Wireless becoming the nations largest wireless carrier and improve their native (non-roaming) coverage in much of rural Nevada outside of the Reno area.

RCR Wireless News has published pre-merger and post-merger coverage maps and other details about the merger.

AT&T Wireless has announced that they have launched a new Mobile TV service in 58 markets nationwide, including Reno. The new service requires a new exclusive handset.

In a press release, AT&T has announced that it will be adding 80 new cell sites this year further expanding it’s higher-speed wireless network. No specific details on Reno were announced.

Cricket has moved it’s cell site serving northwest Reno from a temporary site across from McQueen High School to a new permanent location on the football field stadium light pole. The new antennas will provide more line-of-sight coverage to more areas of northwest Reno.

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After years of complaints and waiting, AT&T has finally improved coverage in the Damonte Ranch and Zolezzi Lane areas with a new cell site which is co-located on an existing tower behind the Wal-Mart on Damonte Ranch Parkway. CID 6296x.

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A new T-Mobile cell site is now active in NW Reno near Robb & Mae Anne Avenue. The new site should fill-in some coverage in the canyons in the area that the cell site at Robb & Sharlands doesn’t serve adequately. CID 1325x.

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As reported a few weeks ago, phones on the AT&T network in the Reno area are now showing 3G data coverage.

AT&T has now posted PDF maps showing 3G coverage in the Reno/Tahoe/Carson City areas.

Reno/Sparks map

Reno/Tahoe region map

Carson City/Carson Valley/Dayton map

3G coverage is now shown as an overlay on top of their regular coverage map.